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Paperwork overload
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/12/2025
» Re: "Drowning in red tape", (Editorial, Dec 3).
Drowning in red tape
Oped, Editorial, Published on 03/12/2025
» Once a thriving southern trading post, Hat Yai has been swamped not only by muddy water but by the kind of hard, bitter lessons disasters bring.
Bolt from the blue
Oped, Postbag, Published on 29/09/2025
» Re: "Safety first in golf", (PostBag, Sept 25) & "Caddie dies after being hit by lightning on golf course", (BP, Sept 23).
Skills over subsidies
Oped, Postbag, Published on 16/11/2024
» Re: "Rice exports expected to tally 9m tonnes", (Business, Nov 13) & "Rice Measures get approval", (BP, Nov 10).
Preparation can help save lives
Oped, Saima Wazed, Published on 26/07/2024
» Yesterday, we joined the global community in observing World Drowning Prevention Day, dedicated to raising awareness and accelerating action on global drowning prevention.
Raising children in the digital age
Oped, Mariano Miguel Carrera, Published on 19/04/2024
» Parents in the 2000s are not taught parenting with addictive technology. The examples did not exist, and a comprehensive guide still needs to be written. We know parenting is a series of successes and failures with unsure outcomes. Presence (physical and mental) matters; however, technology is eroding parents' presence. Parents, with good intentions, are sidelining the tasks required to grow a well-rounded, responsible, and contributing member of society by farming out their duties to technology and drowning themselves in distractions. It is thus time to start teaching parents how to become better parents.
Elephant torture
Oped, Postbag, Published on 16/03/2024
» Re: "Plans for training centres to tame angry elephants", (BP, March 15).
Safety first for swimmers
Oped, Editorial, Published on 21/10/2023
» School break seasons in Thailand — the first from March to May and the second from October to November — are a time when drowning accidents among children 15 years old and below rise substantially.
Stirring the pot
Oped, Postbag, Published on 24/06/2023
» Re: "Defiant student activist returns to school, again", (BP, June 19).
Drowning reminder
Oped, Editorial, Published on 23/02/2023
» This week marks the first anniversary of the most reported drowning accident in Thailand's modern history. A year (and a day) ago on the night of Feb 24, actress Nida "Tangmo" Patcharaveerapong died after falling off a speedboat in the Chao Phraya River.